When longtime TV great and Broadway actress Linda Lavin passed away unexpectedly in late December, a deep wave of sadness was felt across the cast and crew of Hulu’s “Mid-Century Modern.”

“She had a relationship with everybody on the stage, everybody in the production office,” David Kohan, who created “Mid-Century Modern” with Max Mutchnick, told TheWrap of Lavin. “She was universally beloved, and I’m not just tossing that off the way you would say about somebody you work with — She was really, really adored.”

Kohan pointed to someone who said that in meeting Lavin for the first time, they said they made an “new, old friend” in terms of the familiarity and comfort she brought to every interaction. “That was her relationship with virtually everybody on the stage,” Mutchnick said.

Lavin passed on Sunday, Dec. 29 from complications deriving from her lung cancer, which was diagnosed during production for “Mid-Century Modern.